1. If I did not love you for youth and light
And for the beauty of your peerless face

2. And for the magic of your soul when it steals my resolve
And I follow like one enchanted

3. And for what you encompass of beauty and express
Through you like a sorceress of eloquence

4. And for what you have granted, what you have granted of love
To the universe, or revived from the forgotten

5. If I did not love you with an enraptured love
Not the love of a captive, but grateful love

6. The love with which you revived his life
From your stored bounty

7. And granted him sovereignty of life though long
He lived it like a hired laborer

8. And gave him back his past after its loss
And guarded his future from the forbidden

9. The love in whose heart you shone
Dispelling every veiled cover

10. And breathed strength into his resolves till they glowed
And every forbidder and hazard fell silent

11. Or else I love you with the love you inspired
A passion lighting up all feeling

12. Poetry gathering the flowers of life
And its bouquet with fragrant scent

13. And from brilliance granting it hopes
And from dew a dream like a charming face

14. You revived it with life’s inspiration and art
Revealing it amidst treasured beauty

15. Shall I not love you? It is the duty
Of the grateful to the bestower of bounty